David McCloskey

It's independent, but it's on the old Columbia Pictures lot.

And they've got space opening up the next day.

Gordon.

And specifically, these were offices that had recently been vacated by Michael Douglas, who had just finished producing The China Syndrome.

So they've got three offices and a reception room.

Mendez says, great, if it was good enough for Michael Douglas, it's good enough for us.

So on Saturday morning, Mendez, Chambers, and Seidel drive down for a look at the office.

receptionist slides the word Studio 6 Productions onto a placard, slips it into a slot of the front door.

There you go.

You got your office space.

The rest of the day, they scrounge up furniture, typewriters, call in favors to get the phone lines connected.

And they install, this is important, right?

That the number doesn't look strange and that it's listed.

So they install several working phone lines, including, and they make sure that a few are listed in kind of key directories.

Seidel will man the office and the phones for the duration of the operation because you,

You need a real person to answer the phone if someone in Iran calls to check out what's going on at Studio 6.

Seidel's wife, Andy, is brought in to act as the production secretary.

And Seidel basically tells her what they're up to and that she's going to be working starting Monday in the offices of Studio 6.

production.

So by Sunday... Mendes has been in Hollywood for like 48 hours at this point.